If the mentors are any good the proteges should realize how much the mentors mean to them...in any profession. Good mentoring leads to quality professionals, and good mentors should think about the success of a protege, because if the protege goes out on his or her own, while it is certainly a reflection on the protege at some point, early on it is a reflection on how good the mentoring was.
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TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT'S 1975
- Thread starter Runrigger
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DToTheJ said:
za-rex said:
I've heard other oldies/classic hits stations. I dial up CBS-FM and WOGL every now and then... but I've found WKNL to be the most often choice of "background music" for me, so maybe it's something I've noticed as a result of being a "P1"... But in all fairness, most of the songs they do run into the proverbial ground aren't your average tried-and-trues - songs like Jimmy Cliff's "Wonderful World", for example...
I got a good dose of WKNL driving up from Washington last week.
Did hear some good stuff there.
'Have friends in Connecticut who listen, and have "heard it on" in stores, etc. in my travels there.
Did hear some good stuff there.
'Have friends in Connecticut who listen, and have "heard it on" in stores, etc. in my travels there.
OK, I'm starstruck...AND I TOLD HIM SO!
The reason you're hearing Tom Kent's son do his show tonight on B101 is because Tom is on-the-road, visiting his native North Carolina. 'Just had dinner with him here in Raleigh, where I'm visiting client station WPTF (he's on our sister station Y102.9).
VERY cool guy.
And having done local night time Providence radio lo-those-many-years those-many-years-ago, I don't toss bouquets casually to syndicated newcomers...but Kent's genuine passion and uncanny technical interface is REAL good radio.
HC
The reason you're hearing Tom Kent's son do his show tonight on B101 is because Tom is on-the-road, visiting his native North Carolina. 'Just had dinner with him here in Raleigh, where I'm visiting client station WPTF (he's on our sister station Y102.9).
VERY cool guy.
And having done local night time Providence radio lo-those-many-years those-many-years-ago, I don't toss bouquets casually to syndicated newcomers...but Kent's genuine passion and uncanny technical interface is REAL good radio.
HC
Re: OK, I'm starstruck...AND I TOLD HIM SO!
Tom Kent may be a very cool guy but the bottom line is he is taking away another shift that could be (and should be) local. You may have never had a stop in Providence during your career if Tom Kent was doing his show back in the day.
Holland Cooke said:
Tom Kent may be a very cool guy but the bottom line is he is taking away another shift that could be (and should be) local. You may have never had a stop in Providence during your career if Tom Kent was doing his show back in the day.
We did NOT rehearse this, right?
True!
AND...
Tom himself wouldn't-have-gotten-to-be Tom himself if there weren't local on-air jobs wherever-he-started.
AND...ready?
His story illustrates how the status quo can be one-whole-helluvalot-MORE-opportune than Those Good Aulde Days.
Because?
Tom works for Tom.
He owns his show, and does it at home.
He himself, smiling-and-dialing, signed up 190+ affiliates.
ABC sells the ads for him.
Try THAT in Those Good Aulde Days.
Now THERE'S a "bottom line" for ya.
But that's all inside baseball.
What-comes-out-the-speaker is all that Homer and Marge Diarykeeper know.
And what's-coming-out-the-speaker-now is better than what it replaced.
DavidZ said:
True!
AND...
Tom himself wouldn't-have-gotten-to-be Tom himself if there weren't local on-air jobs wherever-he-started.
AND...ready?
His story illustrates how the status quo can be one-whole-helluvalot-MORE-opportune than Those Good Aulde Days.
Because?
Tom works for Tom.
He owns his show, and does it at home.
He himself, smiling-and-dialing, signed up 190+ affiliates.
ABC sells the ads for him.
Try THAT in Those Good Aulde Days.
Now THERE'S a "bottom line" for ya.
But that's all inside baseball.
What-comes-out-the-speaker is all that Homer and Marge Diarykeeper know.
And what's-coming-out-the-speaker-now is better than what it replaced.
That 8/3/75 playlist was extremely nostalgic. The Red Sox were charging towards the World Series, we wondered what dumb thing Gerald Ford would do next, it was a good DXing summer and I had just segued from WGNG to WPJB. As a listener, not a jock. Was only 11 at the time, if you're scoring at home.
DECADES-before there was a "Cyber Monday..."
I think it was usually the-Monday-after-Thanksgiving each year, when Providence Postmaster Harry Kazarian would drop-in on Salty's show to say, cheerfully, "Mail early!"
Then Salty would yank that strip of jingle bells that Jay Clark hung in the studio (for us to yank when we said call letters into a stopset).
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
I think it was usually the-Monday-after-Thanksgiving each year, when Providence Postmaster Harry Kazarian would drop-in on Salty's show to say, cheerfully, "Mail early!"
Then Salty would yank that strip of jingle bells that Jay Clark hung in the studio (for us to yank when we said call letters into a stopset).
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
RE "The bells went back to Al Herskovitz."
That on-hour REVERB!
"WPRO, Providence, THE STATION THAT REACHES THE BEACHES!"
"WPRO, Providence, WE THINK CLEAN!"
I'll swap you an "I Survived" [The Great Blizzard of '78] bumpersticker for a Pro Ecology bumpersticker.
Listening from afar, I REALLY wanted to hit that reverb button.
But I never worked Mason Street.
Those Springfield airchecks I relentlessly sent Jay Clark made such-GRADUAL-progress that I didn't get hired until The Trail.
Even then, I still felt I was waltzing-in-there like the couple who crashed the White House dinner.
HC
That on-hour REVERB!
"WPRO, Providence, THE STATION THAT REACHES THE BEACHES!"
"WPRO, Providence, WE THINK CLEAN!"
I'll swap you an "I Survived" [The Great Blizzard of '78] bumpersticker for a Pro Ecology bumpersticker.
Listening from afar, I REALLY wanted to hit that reverb button.
But I never worked Mason Street.
Those Springfield airchecks I relentlessly sent Jay Clark made such-GRADUAL-progress that I didn't get hired until The Trail.
Even then, I still felt I was waltzing-in-there like the couple who crashed the White House dinner.
HC
"I remember WPRO always being heavy on Reverb."
NOT "always."
Several points:
1. Pre-1974, when WPRO-AM was on Mason Street, the reverb jimmyONE referred to was an actual car audio system reverb, which they rigged-up with a push-button; and the jock would use it for emphasis, when delivering the topical on-hour slogan, i.e., "THE STATION THAT REACHES THE BEACHES," or whatever promotion-of-the-moment was front-burner. Because the reverb wasn't broadcast quality, it was only (supposed to be) used in this voice-only fashion, and the station was otherwise "fat and flat."
2. 1974:
a.) WPRO AM/FM move to Wampanoag Trail, get new equipment (including broadcast-quality reverb and other then-state-of-the-art audio processing);
b.) WPRO-FM flips Beautiful Music to CHR, adds deep WABC-in-its-heyday-level reverb;
c.) WPRO-AM reverb is BARELY audible, just-enough-so-we-weren't-flat, and tweaked ad nauseam, as was separate mic processing, music EQ, etc. Example: http://getonthenet.com/WPRO77.wax (not like-a-tunnel, just-a-touch).
Why reverb and other "juicing:" To sound different and distinctive, and -- for AMs -- "apparent loudness," so what-we-were-pumping-out made-the-most-of how a Delco dashboard radio sounded. "Hot," not "pure." For-the-same-reason some stations (i.e., WGNG, not WPRO) would play records @ 47RPM, to sound brighter than the competition, and play more music.
Misty watercolor MEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMories...
Skynet74 said:
NOT "always."
Several points:
1. Pre-1974, when WPRO-AM was on Mason Street, the reverb jimmyONE referred to was an actual car audio system reverb, which they rigged-up with a push-button; and the jock would use it for emphasis, when delivering the topical on-hour slogan, i.e., "THE STATION THAT REACHES THE BEACHES," or whatever promotion-of-the-moment was front-burner. Because the reverb wasn't broadcast quality, it was only (supposed to be) used in this voice-only fashion, and the station was otherwise "fat and flat."
2. 1974:
a.) WPRO AM/FM move to Wampanoag Trail, get new equipment (including broadcast-quality reverb and other then-state-of-the-art audio processing);
b.) WPRO-FM flips Beautiful Music to CHR, adds deep WABC-in-its-heyday-level reverb;
c.) WPRO-AM reverb is BARELY audible, just-enough-so-we-weren't-flat, and tweaked ad nauseam, as was separate mic processing, music EQ, etc. Example: http://getonthenet.com/WPRO77.wax (not like-a-tunnel, just-a-touch).
Why reverb and other "juicing:" To sound different and distinctive, and -- for AMs -- "apparent loudness," so what-we-were-pumping-out made-the-most-of how a Delco dashboard radio sounded. "Hot," not "pure." For-the-same-reason some stations (i.e., WGNG, not WPRO) would play records @ 47RPM, to sound brighter than the competition, and play more music.
Misty watercolor MEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMories...
As Holland said,
"Because the reverb wasn't broadcast quality, it was only (supposed to be) used in this voice-only fashion, and the station was otherwise "fat and flat.""
But one of Holland's predecessors, Big Ange, was famous for punching the button all over the place. When I worked at PRO-FM in the beautiful music days, we would simulcast the AM top of the hour news. We were supposed to hit it like a network, straight up at the top of the hour, but Big Ange was always late. I can't tell you how many times I did my ID and potted up the AM, to hear Ange shouting "The Big Ange Shoooowww" in that heavy reverb. I'm sure it gave the beautiful music listeners a heart attack. I got so I monitored the AM in my headphones and would slowly stretch out the ID trying to match up the newscast.
I also recall that Jimmy was fond of whacking the reverb during Tony Orlando's "Knock Three Times" everytime the knock on the pipes line came up, Clannnnk, Clannnnk! Oh the silly things you remember forever, but that's what made those guys and a station like PRO AM so great.
"Because the reverb wasn't broadcast quality, it was only (supposed to be) used in this voice-only fashion, and the station was otherwise "fat and flat.""
But one of Holland's predecessors, Big Ange, was famous for punching the button all over the place. When I worked at PRO-FM in the beautiful music days, we would simulcast the AM top of the hour news. We were supposed to hit it like a network, straight up at the top of the hour, but Big Ange was always late. I can't tell you how many times I did my ID and potted up the AM, to hear Ange shouting "The Big Ange Shoooowww" in that heavy reverb. I'm sure it gave the beautiful music listeners a heart attack. I got so I monitored the AM in my headphones and would slowly stretch out the ID trying to match up the newscast.
I also recall that Jimmy was fond of whacking the reverb during Tony Orlando's "Knock Three Times" everytime the knock on the pipes line came up, Clannnnk, Clannnnk! Oh the silly things you remember forever, but that's what made those guys and a station like PRO AM so great.
Good memory Joe!...Also like to hit reverb on the drums for "I wonder what she's doing tonight..Boyce & Hart...and Jam up and Jelly Tight by Tommy Roe. And as I remember, we were supposed to use the reverb on the top JUST for the call letters,,,banker said:
Example, the station that reaches the beaches...Reverb: WPRO, providence...
Re: RE "The bells went back to Al Herskovitz."
As I've said for three decades...
"Ladies and Gentlemen: THE funniest man in radio!"
jimmyone said:
As I've said for three decades...
"Ladies and Gentlemen: THE funniest man in radio!"
THANK yew...
Having been THAT guy, your longtime, long-ago, long-suffering local DJ, I thankyew...
(Pro Personalities are frequently compensated for their appearences.)
Having been THAT guy, your longtime, long-ago, long-suffering local DJ, I thankyew...
(Pro Personalities are frequently compensated for their appearences.)
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